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HOW TO ARRANGE A SMALL LIVING ROOM | Home Decorating Ideas
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Mar 28, 2025
Struggling to arrange your small living room? Don’t worry—I’ve got you covered! In this video, I’ll share expert tips and tricks to make the most of your space while keeping it stylish and functional. ✨ In This Video, You’ll Learn: ✔️ The best furniture layouts for small living rooms ✔️ Space-saving furniture ideas & multi-functional pieces ✔️ How to create flow and balance in a tight space ✔️ Smart storage solutions to reduce clutter No matter your style or budget, these easy tips will help you transform your small living room into a beautiful and comfortable space you love! | CHAPTERS | 00:00 Intro 00:26 Seating Types 02:45 Furniture Selection and Layouts 05:10 Accent Furniture 06:44 Defined Zones and Clear Pathways 09:01 Space-Saving Tips 11:47 Outro
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hi it's Lindsay Diane from
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dianecor.com in this video we're going
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to talk all about how to arrange a small
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living room i'll share with you some of
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the best layout options the furniture
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choices that you'll want to make and
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I'll share with you some space-saving
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tips so that your small living room
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feels larger airier and easy to move
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around in let's get started the first
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thing that you'll want to do when you're
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arranging a small living room is you
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want to choose your seating type there
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are generally two different seating
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types for a living room either you're
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going to have a conversationbased
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seating or an entertainmentbased seating
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so a conversationbased seating means
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that you typically won't have a
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television in your room so instead
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you're going to orient the seating so
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that it all faces inward and centered
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around a coffee table so this is like a
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round table seating where you intend to
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engage in conversation with other people
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there will be people at sort of all four
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corners angled in for the most part and
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this is the conversationbased seating
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alternatively you have
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entertainmentbased seating and this is
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where you have your furniture oriented
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towards an entertainment center of some
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type so your television or projection
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screen you are orienting your furniture
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based off of the entertainment feature
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and that's going to be your main focal
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point as opposed to the conversation
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seating where the other people are the
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focal point and you're arranging that
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furniture so that you can see the other
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people here with the entertainmentbased
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seating you are arranging your furniture
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so that you can see that entertainment
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device either one works perfectly well
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for a small living room just make your
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preference if this is a space where you
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want to be able to watch TV and that's
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going to be your focal point just know
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that when you start choosing your
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furniture
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this is really an important step when
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you're starting to arrange your living
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room because the conversationbased
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seating is going to be set up in a way
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where you may need some smaller pieces
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of furniture to make it work as opposed
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to the entertainmentbased seating where
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you're going to sacrifice one wall
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entirely for that entertainment piece so
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for the television for the projector
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screen and so that allows you to have
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maybe a larger piece of furniture on the
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opposing wall and two smaller pieces of
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furniture kind of mingled in there so
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once you decide your type of seating
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you're going to move on to the next step
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step number two is your furniture
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selection in both scenarios you want to
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choose at least two pieces of furniture
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even in a small setting the only
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exception to this is if you are going to
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use a U-shaped sectional now the reason
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why you want multiple pieces of
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furniture is so that you can have people
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oriented in another direction and you
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aren't all sort of front row at the
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movie theater and you can't talk to one
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another you know you have to turn your
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head to talk to one another if you just
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have one full-size sofa but if you have
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two pieces of furniture like a full-size
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sofa and an accent chair or a full-size
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sofa and maybe an accent chair and a
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little ottoman poof that gives you a
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much more dynamic layout so that you can
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still be focused on conversations with
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other people you don't have to be
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totally dependent upon a television
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entertaining folks cuz of course usually
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people are watching TV and they're
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chatting and they're eating snacks and
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you don't all want to be oriented the
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same way it's hard to see people like
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that so having multiple pieces of
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furniture that are angled in different
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directions is really important if you
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have a entertainmentbased seating your
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options are going to be either a sofa
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and a love seat and some accent chairs
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or you could go with like an L-shaped
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sectional that will at least give
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someone the opportunity to sort of turn
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90° and look at some other folks in the
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room and again if you're going with that
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conversationbased seating you can do one
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of two things you can have opposing love
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seats so one on one side one on the
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other side or you could have a love seat
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in two chairs or you could have four
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chairs or three chairs it just really
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depends on how much space you have to
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work with but odds are if you are doing
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that conversation based seating you want
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to go with some smaller pieces as
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opposed to going with that large sofa
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because you want to be able to orient
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them and angle them while still having
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enough walkway in your space so a a love
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seat and a couple of chairs is a great
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option or you can go with a round table
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seating where you have four chairs
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oriented around a circular table
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whatever you choose just make sure that
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your conversation seating is sort of
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grouped around a central focal point
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let's talk about accent furniture now
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that you've chosen your seating
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furniture the other accent furniture in
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your room is almost just as important
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because if you choose the wrong accent
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furniture to go in there it can really
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eat up a lot of your space and it's
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going to make that small living room
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seem even smaller so think about doing
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some very small nesting side tables or
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some small round side tables and as far
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as the coffee table is concerned a
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smaller round coffee table or storage
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ottoman is your best choice going with a
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longer rectangular coffee table is just
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going to cut off your pathways to be
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able to walk through that space and to
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get to additional seating so instead
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your best bet really is to go with a
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smaller round coffee table if you have a
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small living room alternatively you can
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forego the coffee table altogether and
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just go with some small side tables that
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are next to your seating and then you
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can have maybe an extended ottoman so
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that you can really sort of stretch out
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it gives you some additional seating so
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it's a piece that you can move around or
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you can push it right up to your sofa or
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love seat and be able to kick your legs
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up and have that sort of full lounge
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experience that's another really great
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option if you really don't need to have
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that coffee table right there in front
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of you go ahead and rely on some side
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tables instead and then use an oversized
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ottoman to make your space a little bit
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more versatile and the last thing that
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you want to make sure you do when you
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are arranging your small living room is
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to define your zones now if you have a
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small living room odds are you have an
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open space plan so you're in like an
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apartment setting or you may be in a um
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a condo or a townhouse and you have like
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a kitchen that leads into that living
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room space odds are it's not walled off
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completely or if you're in an older home
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sometimes you have very small little
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sitting rooms or living rooms that are
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right off of the entryway in this case
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you want to make sure that you define
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that zone by placing an area rug you
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want to have some distinct boundaries
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around that living room seating area
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that separate you from either a hallway
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or a kitchen or a dining room and the
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best and easiest way to do that is to
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use an area rug now you'll also want to
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make sure that your pathways into that
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living room are clear there is nothing
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that makes a small space feel cramped
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like having to scoot around furniture it
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really only emphasizes the fact that
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there's a small amount of room in this
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space and so by making sure that your
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pathways are clear and you can have
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direct through points into the room and
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to the seating areas it will go a long
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long way to making that space feel a
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little bit more spacious and so when
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you're doing this what you're going to
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do is you're going to avoid a long piece
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of furniture in the position where
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you're entering the room so if you're
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walking from the kitchen into the living
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room you do not want to walk right into
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the back of a sofa you want that space
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to be open so that you can either go to
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either side and have a chair in the
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middle right and you can go to either
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side and enter into the room or you have
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nothing there at all and you can enter
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straight into the room go to the sofa
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walk to the next chair whatever it is
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you just want to make sure that you have
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clear pathways into that space and
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you're not hitting any large barriers as
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you enter into a small living room and
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last but not least let's talk about
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space saving furniture
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things like floating entertainment
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centers floating wall shelves
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open-legged chairs storage ottomans and
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nesting tables are all excellent options
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when you want to save on space in a room
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so for instance your nesting tables you
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may stack two or three and they all kind
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of compact together when they're stored
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away but if you need those extra tables
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to do homework or jot down notes or have
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a snack for multiple people you can pull
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them out and you have that functionality
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without it taking up a ton of space
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similarly with the storage ottoman you
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can use that instead of a traditional
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coffee table and you'll have a place to
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be either put up your feet sometimes
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they have the flip tops that are tray on
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one side and a soft you know upholstered
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piece on top so that you can still set
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down your uh you know your coffee cup
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and your plate and things like that on a
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nice flat level surface or you can
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always just have a tray that sits on top
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of that storage ottoman so that you can
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put those things on it and it you can
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move it easily when you want to get into
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the ottoman either way this gives you a
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place for storage it gives you a place
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to set down a snack and it gives you a
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place for you to kick up your feet which
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makes it an amazing multi-functional
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piece floating shelves and floating
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entertainment centers are great because
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they're giving you the illusion of a
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little bit more space you see more
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visually at the floor level even if you
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aren't necessarily dangling your feet
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under the entertainment center right
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you're not actually utilizing that space
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but it does give you a more of a light
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and airy feeling and so when you're
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choosing your furniture think about some
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pieces that are either floating or have
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an open leg system we talked a lot about
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this in um the video how to mix and
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match furniture um I will link that in
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the description box below but there's a
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way when you're mixing and matching
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furniture it's not necessarily just all
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about patterns it's about the
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silhouettes and the weight of your
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furniture and so you don't want all of
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your furniture to be bulky and heavy and
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go straight to the ground sometimes you
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want things that are on open legs
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because it gives a visual aireriness you
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can see more that's going on you can see
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the rug below it again even though
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you're not necessarily utilizing this
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space for anything in particular
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visually it gives that space a lightness
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and therefore makes it feel larger and
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less cramped so that's it for this video
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